A. N. A. ; Andrew N. Avinoff / Avinov Awinoff / Андрей Николаевич Авинов ;
1884 in Tulchyn, Podolia Governorate, now Ukraine
1948
wealthy Russian family with ties to nobility who served a diplomatic role in the Nicholas II of Russia's court
portrait painter Elizabeth Shoumatoff (sister) ;
L.L.B., Univ. of Moscow, 1905; Hon. D.Sci., Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1927; L.H.D. Washington & Jefferson Coll.
Poland
O. E. Jennings: Wild Flowers of Western Pennsylvania & Upper Ohio Basin (Pittsburgh 1953) ; H. Osborn: Fragments of Entomological History incl. some Personal Recollections of Men & Events (Columbus, Ohio, 1937) ;
in 1924 hired as an assistant curator of entomology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History; became director 1926-46
His associates at the Carnegie Museum included William P. Comstock, E. Irving Huntington, Cyril F. dos Passos and Vladimir Nabokov
botanical pen-and-ink drawing, watercolour painting, and oil painting ;
Lawrence 1964: 16 ; Helen H. Adams (ed.): Andrey Avinoff's Portraits of Orchids (New York 1960) ;
American entomologist, painter, illustrator, and graphic artist of Russian origins, who left Russia after the Revolution and moved to the United States of America.
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